‘Emotionally attached’ Osborne tells Scots to ask tough questions

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George Osborne told a CBI dinner last night: “Scotland walks taller and shouts louder as part of the United Kingdom”Andrew Milligan/PA

Lindsay McIntosh

Published at 12:01AM, September 7 2012

George Osborne claims that he is “emotionally attached” to Scotland and is
urging Scots to start asking Alex Salmond the hard questions about the
effect that independence would have on the currency and the economy.

The Chancellor, speaking in Glasgow last night as negotiations between the
governments in Edinburgh and London inched towards an agreement on the terms
of the 2014 vote, attacked Mr Salmond’s monetary policy for a separate
nation.

He said the suggestion that Scotland could leave the political union with the
rest of the UK but remain in some kind of “sterling zone” had been shown by

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